To note the disconnect between these assumptions and the facts is not to deny the seriousness of Russian attempts to interfere in the election or of the crimes Manafort and Gates are accused of committing.

The Graham-Cassidy bill was a dog’s breakfast of misbegotten assumptions and Tenth Amendment wet dreams, all the things that have driven Republican domestic policy since Ronald Reagan descended upon the Capitol.

Even when others believe and validate our experience, as Western women assaulted in a non-Western country, our stories reinforce the xenophobic assumption that non-Western countries (and men) are somehow inherently more dangerous.

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